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About Epirus

Epirus is a high-growth technology company dedicated to overcoming the asymmetric challenges inherent to the future of national security. Epirus' flagship product, Leonidas, is a software-defined system built using intelligent power management techniques which allow power-hungry systems to do more with less.

Job Summary: We are seeking a seasoned Software Engineering Manager to lead our Internal Tools and Infrastructure team. This role is ideal for someone who is passionate about developer productivity, infrastructure reliability, and operational excellence. You’ll guide a team of talented engineers responsible for building and maintaining the tools, services, and systems that support internal development workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, grow, and mentor a team of software and DevOps engineers working on internal tooling, developer experience, and infrastructure automation.
• Driving meaningful business outcomes by eliminating friction, accelerating delivery, and empowering teams to perform at their highest potential.
• Own the strategy and roadmap for internal platforms, including build systems, CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, system release infrastructure, and development environments.
• Collaborate with engineering, security, and IT teams to ensure scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure across disciplines.
• Develop and maintain internal software tools that automate and optimize business-critical workflows across teams such as operations, finance, support, and product.
• Build self-service tools and platforms that empower non-technical teams to independently perform tasks that traditionally require engineering support.
• Identify pain points in the engineering experience and prioritize improvements that boost team velocity.
• Ensure high availability and performance of internal systems through resilient architecture and efficient operations.
• Champion developer-centric usability and documentation to ensure adoption of internal tools.
• Manage vendor relationships and tool evaluations related to internal development platforms.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering and 5+ years of software engineering experience OR (3+ years experience with a graduate degree) with a strong foundation in backend service development and infrastructure \automation
• 2+ years in a leadership or people management role within an engineering organization.
• Proficiency with Python
• Proven experience building internal tools, developer productivity systems, or platform infrastructure.
• Solid understanding of DevOps tooling and practices, including CI/CD (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins), container orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Experience writing custom plug-ins or APIs for developer tools, version control systems, IDEs, or CI systems.
• Proficiency with web backend technologies (e.g., OpenAPI, Flask, Django, or Node.js backends).
• Strong problem-solving skills and a drive to eliminate inefficiencies and bottlenecks in developer workflows.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi).
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
• Experience integrating and expanding enterprise tools (e.g. Oracle, Atlassian, Altium, SolidWorks, Slack).
• Familiarity with hardware-software integration workflows (e.g., firmware flashing, FPGA build tools, HIL testing, embedded systems).
• Experience managing developer environments that span embedded, backend, and scripting toolchains.
• Prior involvement in building an internal developer portal or platform.
• Exposure to multiple programming environments and build systems (e.g., CMake, BitBake, Gradle).
• Understanding of developer UX principles and human-centered design practices.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Proficient in infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi).
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
• Experience integrating and expanding enterprise tools (e.g. Oracle, Atlassian, Altium, SolidWorks, Slack).
• Familiarity with hardware-software integration workflows (e.g., firmware flashing, FPGA build tools, HIL testing, embedded systems).
• Experience managing developer environments that span embedded, backend, and scripting toolchains.
• Prior involvement in building an internal developer portal or platform.
• Exposure to multiple programming environments and build systems (e.g., CMake, BitBake, Gradle).
• Understanding of developer UX principles and human-centered design practices.

ITAR REQUIREMENTS:

• To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.

At Epirus, you’ll work with technical peers and great people—and get first crack at some of the defining technology challenges of our time. Here, “impossible” is just a challenge. We're a diverse, fast-growing team of change-makers fueling the future of energy with revolutionary solutions. Join us and rewrite the rules.